Catlin Sponsors Antarctic Exhibition
Bermuda based Catlin Group Limited is the primary sponsor of an exhibition opening in January at the Natural History Museum in London that sheds new light on the ill-fated Antarctic expedition led by Captain Robert Falcon Scott.
Scott’s Last Expedition, which will run from 20 January until 2 September 2012, will take a new look at this landmark journey 100 years on.
The exhibition will look at everyday life in the base-camp hut, examine the saga of human endurance and reveal the remarkable scientific achievements of the expedition, a story that has been largely untold until now.
As part of the 1910-1913 Terra Nova expedition, Scott led the largest team of scientists that had to date visited Antarctica. The expedition returned with thousands of zoological and geological specimens.
They also collected large quantities of data that fundamentally contributed to what is now known about the continent. More than 40,000 specimens collected by Scott’s Terra Nova expedition are held in the Natural History Museum’s collections.
Elin Simonsson, the exhibition curator at the Natural History Museum who led the development of Scott’s Last Expedition, said: “Our mission is to share this fantastic and inspiring story of Scott’s last expedition with the world and for the first time tell it from a broader perspective.
“One hundred years on, we want people to know that Scott’s last expedition was not just a journey to the South Pole, it was also an important scientific expedition that carried out work across many fields.”
This exhibition reunites for the first time objects used by Scott and his team together with the scientific specimens collected. Visitors can walk around a life-size representation of Scott’s base-camp hut and, as they leave the exhibition, visitors will be able to enter a cinema space and watch a series of films showing the lasting impact of the expedition.
The science carried out by Scott and his team was unique in its breadth, and the immense body of work that the expedition produced is still important and relevant for scientists researching Antarctica today.
Catlin was the title sponsor of the Catlin Arctic Survey, a three-year scientific project from 2009-2011 to gather data that researchers are currently using to predict how climate change and other environmental changes could impact the Arctic and the rest of the planet.
Stephen Catlin, chief executive of Catlin Group Limited, said: “We at Catlin are proud to sponsor this important exhibition at the Natural History Museum in London. Scientists learned much from the information gathered by the Scott expedition, just as they are now learning from the data collected through the Catlin Arctic Survey. Whilst Scott and his brave companions died nearly a century ago, there is still a lot we can learn from their exploration of Antarctica.”
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